Children with disabilities are stronger than we know, they fight the battles that most will never know.

Children with autism are colourful – they are often very beautiful and, like the rainbow, they stand out.

Children with autism are constantly testing and pursuing truth. They are a bundle of contradictions. They love order and routine, yet often have the most amazingly inventive and creative minds. They may appear to follow...

autism is more like retina patterns than measles

It is my understanding that when you receive a Autism diagnosis for your child you have to accept it. If you don’t you are only condemning yourself and your child to a life of frustrating...

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

The Internet,” [Judy] Singer said, “is a prosthetic device for people who can’t socialize without it.” For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is...

It is my own personal opinion that for someone to state that an autistic person ‘lacks empathy’ is to declare ignorance of the reality of autism.

We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They deserve beautiful resources and symbols that make sense. If a picture does not...

The world has a fast-growing problematic disability, which forges bonds in families, causes people to communicate in direct and clear ways, cuts down meaningless social interaction, pushes people to the limit with learning about themselves,...

Its not the label of autism we need for our children, its the help and understanding that comes with that label that we need.

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.–Ray Bradbury

Are we allowing individuals to develop their talents with our current teaching methods? Is there more or maybe less we should be doing?

… each day provided some tiny step forward, some steps so small you would miss them if you weren’t looking. I’m always looking- eager to witness that next miracle.

It’s true, though, others won’t understand me. I know that. I’m still an alien in the American Christian subculture.Each evening I retreat from it, and I go straight to the Gospels.It’s not out of duty...

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

And with a relentlessness that comes from the world’s depths, with a persistence that strikes the keys metaphysically, the scales of a piano student keep playing over and over, up and down the physical backbone...

Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the comment that not only are universities a ‘cathedral’ for worship of...

Autism is just the surface. What is inside each of us is what matters, autistic or not.

The future of my child is unknown but I have loved him, supported him, and taught him right from wrong. I will continue to do so…

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I’ve sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing it in my mind as the ideal straight line – the longest distance...

In the context of the autism world (and my outlook in general) this is were I stand equality is for everyone, everybody in the world – I look at both sides of the the coin...

My aim is to sort the jumble of information we throw at these children and present it in such a way that they will have a greater chance of achieving independence and fulfilment.

A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, ‘What wondrous thing shall I witness today?

I am no longer ‘trying to dig up evidence to prove’ vaccines cause autism. There is already abundant evidence….This debate is not scientific but is political

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication – this “nerdification,” to put it bluntly – is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

Also I didn’t habe 20/20 vision whch you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

Having Simultanagnosia (object blindness), Prosopagnosia (face blindness) and Semantic Agnosia (meaning blindness) goes in my favour with regards to abstract art living in world full of fragmented pieces when I draw it is in real...

In a world now so obsessed with speed, we teachers must step back and learn to wait.

[…] nobody anywhere seemed to be willing to ponder for a moment the possibility that a human being who refused to participate, who refused to speak or listen, who failed to ‘interact with his peer...

Would I ever have the courage to tell Wills the truth? That he wasn’t just imagining the world was a more difficult place for him to understand than for some of his buddies – that...

But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.

When I was very young I thought I was just like everyone else. I think it took me longer than most to realize I was different and even longer to realize that being different was...

Our visuals must represent the truth and decode the verbal jumble so these children can find the right direction.

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

If you can still wipe your own backside then life’s not that bad!

Why was it considered normal for a girl to live for fashion and makeup, but not car engines or bugs? And what about sports fanatics? My mom had a boyfriend who would flip out if...

My colors ran all over the page, poured out of the lines and meshed together to form colors no one had yet recognized. I was different–unique, bold, strong, smart, and hard-headed. I was simply me.

I Have a Dream… someday my son, Zyon and ALL individuals with disabilities will be seen as HUMAN beings. I Have a Dream… someday the human & civil rights of individuals with disabilities are honored...

When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan.

But the Beast was a good person…the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn’t see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of...

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger’s lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing

I love introverts. They don’t waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don’t trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter.

I go to all the appointments. All the meetings. I sit with the team of inclusion teachers, occupational therapists, doctors, social workers, remedial teachers, and the cab driver that gets him from appointment to appointment,...

Education is that component which brings in a meaningful relationship between the happenings around us and how our senses experience them.

Teachers should be made aware of visual stress symptoms and the potential difference coloured lights, overlays and lenses could make to a learners perception.

Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I’m being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my body’s now a speck, a speck from long before I...

Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams.